Traffic in the morning.

Ludo · 24-11-2014 10:59am

Padraig Mor wrote: »

That could be it - I'm hitting it an hour before you (you lazy bastard! ).

It is only 2 mornings a week I hit it at that time when I drop the kids to school. The other three mornings I get in before the traffic so I hit it at 0645

run_Forrest_run · 24-11-2014 11:05am

very quiet coming into South Ring from Douglas @ 9:10, clearly they sorted out the traffic lights at Kinsale Roundabout.

Ludo · 24-11-2014 11:13am

So traffic all OK this morning when lights fixed other than a minor slowdown. Implication of that is that the Douglas flyover issue is not the lack of a third lane but indeed the problem is caused by the Kinsale Road roundabout.
Impossible to tell from one day of course....lets see how it goes.

corblimey · 24-11-2014 3:26pm

Here's my question (and I concur that it was much easier this morning): where are these cars coming from and where are they going to? The N25 is a lot busier these days than it used to be, which I assume is down to people moving out of the city and heading for the 'burbs like I did, but what's changed out Kinsale direction in the last 10 years? Is there a lot more people working in various industrial estates out that road now? Since I assume most people coming from Midleton/Dublin directions would continue into town from that side of the tunnel, and the turn right lane on the KRR is seldom backed up, it looks like most of the traffic is turning left off the KRR.

ETA: Actually, just had a thought that you can no longer get to the various estates just past the KRR on the left without going through the roundabout, so that probably contributes too.

Ludo · 24-11-2014 5:05pm

Airport business park? How new is that (at least 7 years I know) but is it still growing?

who_me · 24-11-2014 7:40pm

I know this is more an "evening" traffic issue rather than "morning"... but should the quay in front of the bus station be two-lanes going East and 1 going West -instead of 2 going West, 1 going (nowhere, but pointing) East currently?

Looking out my window now, there's loads of traffic going East and it's completely backed up, whereas the two lanes going West are very quiet. (What makes matters worse, is you have lots of cars trying to go on straight onto Anderson's Quay but it's blocked up, so cars wanting to turn right onto Clontarf St. are then skipping the line of traffic by driving down along the wrong side of the road). It's causing big tailbacks down along Parnell Place too. If you had two lanes going East, one for going straight onto Anderson's Quay the other for turning right onto Clontarf St. it'd help a lot.

ofcork · 26-11-2014 7:20pm

On the radio now people on saying its taking half hour from kinsale road to the tunnel whatever is causing it.

hoodwinked · 26-11-2014 8:56pm

ofcork wrote: »

On the radio now people on saying its taking half hour from kinsale road to the tunnel whatever is causing it.

3 car collision in the overtaking lane before the douglas exit is what i heard on the radio

Bacchus · 27-11-2014 9:36am

Much lighter traffic at 7:57 this morning. Traffic for tunnel was only building up at the Mahon slip road.

koriko · 28-11-2014 9:42pm

Traffic lights have been changed- finally? Have found the kinsake road roundabout and down by the Elysian much better the last few days

rosie16 · 28-11-2014 9:59pm

Traffic was good this morning. Breezed through the kinsale rd rounabout. But took me 15 mins to get through it at 2pm. I thought there might have been an accident but it didn't look like it.

hoodwinked · 02-12-2014 11:47pm

Douglas was great this morning!

i think we need to run better campaigns in local secondary schools to encourage them to walk or cycle on the new cycle lanes put in all over Douglas!

Traffic in the morning.

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